One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The strength of society is the family and the strength of society is the family.

.... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me....

Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the smell of fresh coffee fills the air.These people do not live at my house.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.